Ecmandu wrote:Besides, pain is a response, actually suffering, to let you know something is wrong ...

To desensitize it rather than jump into it, is avoidance of all the harm you are causing, rather than holding it and working to solve it. This is also not noble.

This is a subject that is not only interesting but also very important.

Pain is a feeling that you are trying to do too many things at once. You can call it hyper-consciousness, if you will, because you are being too conscious in relation to your limit. You can also call it hyper-sensitivity because you are sensing too much in relation to your limit. It means that too many impulses are fired in your mind. This is always bad -- it cannot possibly be a good thing -- so you must use desensitization, which is a reduction in consciousness, as a counter-measure. This allows your impulses that would otherwise be repressed to be expressed freely. The cost is speed . . . they get to be expressed over a period of time instead of immediately. Which is a good thing because otherwise they would be repressed and your actions would become blind and foolish in relation to your potential.

In Ancient Sparta, they would whip their children on a regular basis in order to teach them precisely this: how to tolerate pain and thus be able to see reality clearly.

In Ancient Sparta, they would also encourage homosexuality in soldiers. Not a big fan of forced male homosexuality.

In any case, the "feeling that you are trying to do too many things at once." is called stress. Stress can be good or bad. Sex is a kind of stress that leads up to orgasm.Pain is different from stress.An analogy is onion and garlic. Onion and garlic are both spicy, but are different entities. Similarly, pain and stress are similar, but different entities.

Pain is different from stress, is a kind of monotony. It is when electricity creates either a monotonous form, (Like a throbbing sensation or high frequency repetitive sine or saw wave) or white noise (a prickly sensation).